Door-hanger.



'No. 655,978. Patented Au .-|4, I900 w. J. LANE.

DOOR HANGER.

(Application filed Dec, 1, 1899.)

(N0 Nodal.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICES.

WILLIAM JAMES LANE, OF POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE LANE BROTHERS COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

DOOR-HANGER.

\ SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 655,978, dated August 14, 1900.

Application filed December 1, 1899. Serial No. 738,805. (No model.) I

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I,WILLIAM JAMES LANE, a citizen'of the United States, residing at Poughkeepsie, county of Dutchess, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Door-Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certain new and original features of construction in doorhangers, which will be described in the following specification and specifically set forth in the claim. i

The object of myinvention is to overcome the difficulties heretofore experienced in adjusting a door upon a door-hanger and main-j taining it in position.

In the various constructions heretofore employed it has been found-for instance,in'that construction where a nut having a grooved periphery is permanently carried by a plate secured to the top of the door-that it is diffi cult to obtain alinement between the threaded end of the hanger and the thread in the nut and that frequently the thread either upon the hanger or in the nut will be destroyed in attempting to secure the'door in position; or.

in that construction where a slotted plate is secured upon the top of the door and a nut lo-' cated upon the threaded portion of the hanger and the threaded portion of the hanger passed into the slot and the nut under the slot that the door cannot be maintained in a fixed and rigid position relative to thehanger, but that the door when pushed to open or close it will oscillate relatively to the han ger, with the re sult that the threaded portion of the hanger will be destroyed by contact with the sidesof the slot in the door-plate.

The accompanying drawings will serve to.

illustrate my invention, in which Figure 1 is an elevation of my improved door-hanger with the strap, nut, and doorplate shown in vertical section. Fig; 2-is a plan view of the door-plate and nut with a transverse section of the strap.

In the drawings, 1 represents the strap, carrying a roller 2 at its upper end and having.

a threaded extension 3 at its lower end.

4 is a door-plate which may be attached in any suitable manner. The door-plate at or about its center is bent upward,-as shown at 5, and has formed in it a transverse slot 6, carried from one side of the plate inwardly.

7 is a nut which is provided with a screwthread on its interior and a circumferential groove 8 on its exterior. The upper flange 9 of the nut takes over the door-plate and is provided with radial projections 10, by means of which the nut may be rotated. The lower flange 11 of the nut takes under the doorplate.

12 is a vertical opening in the top of the door into which the. threaded portion of the strap passes when the door is adjusted in position. It will be observed that when the door is in position the sides of the bent-up portion 5 of the plate 4 are included in the circumferential groove 8 of the nut 7 and that by rotating the nut the door may be adj usted upward and downward.

In my improved construction when the door is to be hung and as the grooved nut is permanently situated on the threaded portion of the strap, and hence always in alineinent, it is only necessary to insert the grooved nut 7 between the sides of the transverse slot 6 in the bent-up portion 5 of the plate 4 and then adjust the door by rotating the nut in the direction required.

Manifestly the partsmay be duplicated to forma double door-hanger. Having thus described my invention, I claim- The combination with a hanging-strap having a threaded extension at one end and carried on a roller at the other end, of a door member having an elongated slot with an outlet therein, and a nut adapted to screw on the threads of the hanger extension,said nut comprising two slightly-separated flanges which maintain a fixed relation to each other having a circumferential groove between them,

said groove corresponding 'in width to the thickness of the door member and the flanges adapted to embrace the upper and lower surfaces of said member whereby to prevent 0s- 

